I rely on that 1/2kg drop when I get a haircut. 😉

What a lovely surprise Amazon 😊

Well it’s a mild 11 degrees here too, but low cloud and very windy, so not conducive to outdoor activity.

Barata,

My hair is neither very thick or very thin, so it does lend itself to a range of styles. I’ve never gone really short though, as I think to carry off pixie you need delicate little pixie features which I definitely do not have ☹️

I must admit I am worried about slipping into stereotypical generic older lady hairstyles..! I’m not ready for that yet..although I will be 49 this year. Eeek 😩

Amazon,

Glad to hear you’ve had a good birthday weekend. Nose to the grindstone again next week…?

Happy,

Oh to be 49 next year……… 😉

My hair is the shortest it’s ever been and I love it. I wouldn’t have had it cut so short before because I had three chins but now I’ve only got the one it looks good if I say so myself.

Having seen a photo, I don’t know why you think you wouldn’t look good with really short hair. You are too modest.

I didn’t get my egg with avocado on toast yeterday as I couldn’t resist a warm crust of freshly baked bread with some butter, so I’m going to have it today as my main meal and tomorrow it is back to food free FDs. I have no intention of undoing the good work of the past 2 weeks and I would like to lose another 4lbs before my trip.

Do the Star Trekers dance I guess 😉😉

After the wet winter/spring, avocados are $5 each! So they are off the menu for a while 🙁

The kitchen renovator ‘forgot’ to make contact over the weekend to arrange for a key to be left out! If we had both been at work… Fortunately Mr B has taken the day off, and it sounds like just as well, to discuss plumbing options etc.

it’s difficult to give an opinion on haircuts when you dear ladies don’t post photos on FB.

Amazon,

It’s not ‘need to wear a hat’, more ‘must remember to wash the back of my neck’ short!

Barata,

You’ve definitely put me off posting to Facebook now! The horror of exhibiting myself for scrutiny and comment?! I think I’ll pass… 😀

Good point, well made, Amazon! My neck can wait for my yearly tin bath in front of the fire 😀

They aired TMIAD Summer special here last night. It was good to see the reinforcement that the way to lose visceral fat is by eating less, not by exercise. Sit ups reduced waist size, but not the dangerous internal fat.

I’m doing back to back fasts this week to fit in with social engagements. Marvellous, flexible, free way of life. 😉😉 P

The trouble is, Amazon, so many gyms and personal trainers, as well as tv shows, make a lot of money out of promoting the excercise/ weightloss myth. There’s no money in eating less 😉
Mental health and a good, strong, flexible body are definitely gained through a sensible active lifestyle, but achieving this can also be free.
I’m also trying to get back to more careful nonfast eating. It is SO easy to allow portion creep when eating with others socially. A couple of fasts in a row should reset the appetite 😉 P

Hi everyone,

It’s a glorious if cold day so I decided a walk would be better exercise than the gym. I’m just back from a 90 minute walk in Kew Gardens which was lovely. Blue sky and sunshine, lots of birdsong, hardly any people 😃
The snowdrops are in bloom and there are hundreds of other bulbs pushing up their leaves and stems into the winter sunshine.
There is a lot of work going on, borders being re-shaped, paths being re-surfaced and lots of general tidying up along with the restoration of the pagoda and one of the big glasshouses which will be re-opening in a couple of months after a 3 year restoration project.

I had a blood test this morning to check my cholesterol levels prior to a medication review next week. I’m going to talk to my GP regarding my concerns regarding taking statins.

Frozen avocados are fine if you are making guacamole. I always ripen fresh ones by putting them alongside the tomatoes and it seems to work well.

Have a good one everybody 😜

What a lovely description of your walk at Kew, Amazon. That’s what I love about walking. One has time to take in the surroundings in detail. A bit like drawing or painting. Excellent for the whole body.
I had a ballet costume of a snowdrop as a 5 year old. I’ve always loved them. 🌼
The first little bit of “rain” fell here overnight. Our water usage over the summer has been enormous, just to try to keep our garden alive. Many mature trees have died in Sydney this summer due to the extreme heat and drought. We are looking to the skies for more. 🙄P

P, I was impressed with the range of A2 milk available when we were in Sydney. I mentioned this at my local supermarket – the supervisor had never heard of it!

Day one, removal of cabinets, step-grandson downstairs didn’t hear a thing. Day two, electrical work, someone went into SGS’s bedroom to see where the wires went to, SGS not impressed (he’s doing shift work). Day three, plumbing. I will post before, during and after photos on FB. It’s bad enough camping in the back bedroom, but when I have to cater for three meal times (four if OH is late and I need to eat by 7pm) I am so over this.

After the big heat, and big dry, tomorrow brings the big wind and big rain. Talk about extremes! I did hear a suggestion that the global warming deniers should buy up all the coastal properties!

I have, over the weekend, read (and am now re-reading) Steven Gundry’s The Plant Paradox on e-version from the library. Eye-opening as to what is really going on inside us. Have bought the book, hope that son’s lady friend in Phoenix, who has lupus, might gain from it.

Stay well, everyone. 🙂

To Meat or not to meat that is the question 💡 a quick spoiler alert I work for the 2nd largest beef processing company in Australia and I have done so since 1993 as do 2 of my sons and a third son and his wife work for a large lamb processing company so the red meat industry or meat processing industry is woven into our family fabric. That said I love life and I want to live a long life in good health. So whatever I can do to help myself to achieve that end goal is my plan I do not want to die of a preventable disease so fasting 3x a week for health benefits and longevity check I aim for and achieve 10000 steps per day what I have not addressed entirely is the composition of the food for my way of life. Simco pointed me towards Dr Longo fast mimicking and the longevity diet interesting informative and timely but it was the YouTube presentation “uprooting the leading causes of death” and how not to die!!! with these facts that opened my eyes to better health outcomes by learning. I found my meat free week easy and I love experimenting with flavour texture colour as well as different regions food Indian , Mexican , Thai , Asian ,Italian etc and the feeling of being very grounded I have no Ethical issue at all or concerns for animal welfare in Australia Government enforced and monitored Regulations are as high as anywhere in the world so it is not that aspect to adopting a whole food plant based diet.I am also happy to have a steak or a roast I am not that pedantic maybe the Sunday roast would be the principal meat meal. When I smoked yes dear reader I did but if I ran out I did not freak out I only smoked around 6 a day and I could go a day or 2 without them no problems at all. Or have 1 then go days without them I suspect my relationship with meat will fall that way.
If I can reduce the chances of cancer and other diseases type 2 diabetes lower blood pressure achieve better heart health improve gut bacteria reduce by a simple dietary change then that is a no brainer for me but I am not a saint and am flexible enough to adapt to social requirements as required or as some others have said social occasions or restaurant choices is much more difficult I feel I would simply go the Chameleon and when in Rome . When I was younger I had a pony tail and a beard lived a bit of an alternative lifestyle for you Aussie folk here a Byron Bay or Nimbin experience 😆 hippy happy days.
These details below I had no idea about so in some respects ignorance is bliss as harden carnivores.
The more red meat you eat, the greater your risk of dying from one of eight diseases, according to a new report.

Researchers studied more than 536,000 men and women ages 50 to 71, tracking their diet and health for an average of 16 years. They recorded intake of total meat, processed and unprocessed red meat (beef, lamb and pork), and white meat (poultry and fish).

Compared with the one-fifth of people who ate the least red meat, the one-fifth who ate the most had a 26 percent increased risk of death from various causes. High red meat consumption increased the rate of dying from cancer, heart disease, respiratory disease, stroke, diabetes, infections, kidney disease and liver disease. The study is in BMJ.
http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j1957
The science the research and the numbers are very clear that a meat free diet will be the best choice for health promoting and longevity so it’s never say never for me. As for protein, the more protein you eat, the higher your IGF 1 levels. As high IGF 1 levels are associated with increased cancer and other diseases
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. Pele
Peace RT.

…… Ebbing Missouri 🤭

No eclipse here, but the super moon was…well, super! We are lucky enough to have no light pollution here, and the moon was verging on being too bright to look at with the naked eye.

Jo,

Did you see Michael Mosley’s programme on exercise last night? It addressed whether running was bad for the knees. It’s not! It’s actually good for the knees. Humans evolved to run, so running is within the range of motion and force for which our bodies are designed. There’s no evidence that running will cause arthritis in later life. So you can stop worrying about your daughter 😀

Oh, and dancing is the best physical exercise for your brain!

Morning/evening all,

The film was excellent and thought provoking. The only thing I didn’t like was coming out of the cinema into the cold. After a period of unseasonal mild weather the temperature has dropped again and there is a considerable wind chill factor at work. Brrrr!
It looks lovely this morning with blue sky and sunshine but I know it’s very cold out there……….
I am so looking forward to two weeks somewhere warmer 🙂

I didn’t see any TV last night but I always thought the issue with running was the surface rather than the action as pavement pounding rather than track or cross country was deemed bad for the joints.
I would love to be able to run but my left knee is not in a fit state for such activities, so I’m limited to running for the bus…..

As for dancing, I love it but these days don’t get the opportunity very often. Another activity to go on the wish list for 2018.

Third FD of the week today and a busy day ahead.

Have a good one everybody 😜

Hi Fast Trackers and Hello World (You All know Who You ARE) 😉

“The most important four words for a successful marriage: ‘I’ll do the dishes.'”
-Anonymous

“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
-Socrates

“Marriage is the bond between a person who never remembers anniversaries and another who never forgets them.”
-Ogden Nash

“Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.”
-Joyce Brothers

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it.”
-Ann Bancroft

“All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.”
-Raymond Hull

“If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.”
-Sam Levenson

“I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.”
-Rodney Dangerfield

“Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.”
-Zig Ziglar

“You don’t marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as a result of being married to you.”
-Richard Needham

“My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce.”
-Joyce Brothers

“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
-Rita Rudner

“Marriage is getting to have a sleep over with your best friend, every single night of the week.”
-Christie Cook

“In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.”
-Helen Rowland
Have A Happy Weekend All You beautiful Losers 😆
Peace RT

😁😂🤣😃Have a good one RT.

Poor you, Amazon. It IS staggering how warming any food is. I also hate fast night sleeplessness…I’ve been awake most of the night again after my Thursday fast. I lie in bed, wide awake, telling myself it is doing me good. 😑😑😑😶P

Amazon, I find it funny (not) when I’m attending a sit down function in airconditoning. I’m freezing and the overweight people are asking for it to be colder as they are hot!
You would be rude to point out that it is their excess fat keeping them hot. 😊

Even a warm black coffee can heat you up. I try to dress in extra layers on fast days, before I get cold and, consequently, hungry.
I’ve always sleepless on fast nights….I can tell how successful the fast was by how little sleep I get. 😣😣

Sleep well 😴😴😴

Ha ha, yes, well, I expect I wouldn’t get cold on fast days either if I was fasting in New Zealand instead of a UK winter 😀

Two degrees here yesterday, but felt colder with the wind chill, might get as high as 4 today if we get some sunshine…

Amazon, I’m in full thermals too when I work at home. I do heat up well when I’m active, but I’ve definitely noticed the difference without my former layer of blubber!

No such luck, Jo. The builders might have gone for now, but the plasterers are in this afternoon, and asking to come back tomorrow (Sunday!). We have no problem with that – they will be self-employed, know that the job has time-constraints, and we all have a public holiday (Waitangi Day) on Tuesday. I am starting to see light at the end of the tunnel – just wish the main renovator would update his plans with my cabinet requirements – must have the red wine drawer under the oven, for one thing!

17 degrees – we are warmer than you, P! A cool southerly is blowing, but still about 20.

Have a good weekend, dear friends. 🙂